This interesting piece in today's Guardian newspaper about the current sales of annuals ends depressingly with Al Notton of the Comics UK website saying, "I was speaking to my seven-year-old nephew about comics recently, and he said, 'Uncle Alan, what's a comic?"

Slightly advance notice, but the Political Cartoon Gallery at 32 Store St, London WC1E emailed with news of their next exhibition, Misunderestimating George Bush, featuring sixty original works from the UK, the US and Australia, none of which are expected to be flattering. 26th Jan to 18th March, and it's opened by George Galloway, which should be... interesting!

BugPowder has been a little quiet this month due to the regular posters being somewhat distracted, myself included. I'm working through the backlog (up to mid November so far) but we could really do with some new blood. All you need to do is check the bugblog email every so often and post what you find. Get in touch if you're interested.

Playlounge, the innovative kidult toy shop in London, is running a 2000AD exhibition of original art and new interpretations of characters by "over forty of the biggest names in art and design". It runs from December 10th to January 10th at 11 Shorts Gardens in Seven Dials, London WC2 from 12pm to 6.30pm with free entry. The shop itself is at 19 Beak Street and well worth a gander. (Ta Bren)